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Will a 20-metre truck make you more money?
The extra metre and the shift from concessional to general mass limits can remove a costly compromise. But the winner between prescriptive 20 metres, higher mass and PBS depends on what the freight task is paying for.
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The Master Code creates no new legal duties—but it could change how “reasonably practicable” is judged.
The revised Heavy Vehicle Industry Master Code creates no new legal duties, but its expanded, activity-based guidance could shape how courts assess whether transport businesses properly managed risk.
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What is the Heavy Vehicle Accreditation scheme?
Heavy Vehicle Accreditation is the voluntary national framework introduced on 1 August 2026 for audited safety management and approved alternative compliance in maintenance, mass and fatigue.
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What is Performance Based Standards?
Performance Based Standards is an approval system in which an innovative heavy-vehicle design must obtain design approval, be built and certified for vehicle approval, and then obtain lawful road access through a…
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AFTD Review: Industry Must Speak Up Before the Questions Are Written
With Australia’s medical fitness-to-drive standards under review and no draft rules yet written, operators, industry bodies, medical experts and other stakeholders have a rare chance to influence the questions policymakers ask before the answers are locked in. So far, the silence has been deafening.